Negation is the only additive move available to a unified, self-referential system, because with no outside to draw from, coherence grows solely through internal differentiation that preserves the invariants allowing the whole to continue without collapse. The Platonic forms are not objects, templates, or ideals waiting somewhere else. They are the invariants of a unified […]
Intellectually vapid political commentary becomes an apologetics for incompetence. At any time and in any place. And the majority of mainstream political (ie media) commentary is most certainly, if often inadvertently, vapid.
The word wank enters English as a piece of slang with a narrow, blunt function, but its deeper linguistic roots sit elsewhere. In Germanic languages the family points to motion rather than obscenity: wanken, wankelen, a sense of swaying, instability, loss of balance. The sexual meaning is comparatively recent, parochial, and culturally loud, amplified by […]
I came close enough to academia to feel its gravity and to see how hard it pulls on people who arrive with curiosity instead of armour; cf. “spaghettification”. It is not that nothing good happens there. Some of it does, almost by accident. Clever people, often exhausted and underprotected, do manage to push insight through […]
In a world that has deeply and intractably commercialised the concept and experience of individuality, the very last thing actually required of us is to be different. We are sorted and we voluntarily self-sort into labels and categories, compressing ourselves into neat, data-ready boxes that serve as containers for self-managed subscription into vast machines of […]
Living systems, space, and coherence Living systems do not operate in a single space in the sense of a bounded domain, nor do they truly inhabit many distinct ones; rather, they instance a continuous relational field whose articulation into behavioural, transcriptional, morphological, physiological, and symbolic sub-spaces constitutes its harmonic structure, not a reduction of it. […]
This is a difficult and sensitive topic. It is hard to find a way to speak on it and yet speak one must. The exposure of Jeffrey Epstein did not uncover a singular aberration so much as a recurring pattern that has long accompanied extreme concentrations of wealth and influence. The mechanics are familiar: private […]
E pluribus unum, a phrase born of an early republic trying to hold together difference without crushing it, means quite plainly out of many, one, yet its force lies not in patriotism or unanimity but in the harder truth that a coherent whole does not precede its parts but arises only because distinct lives, voices, […]
In Australia, many people learn quickly that speaking openly about mental health carries a reputational cost. The signal is subtle but persistent: disclose too much and you risk being quietly reclassified as unreliable, fragile, or difficult. The result is a perverse ethical loop in which silence is rewarded and honesty is penalised, even though that […]
The contemporary ethics of artificial intelligence is dominated by institutional reports, advisory panels, and compliance frameworks that focus on bias mitigation, transparency checklists, and downstream harm reduction. These efforts are not meaningless, but they are constrained by the same political, legal, and economic structures that fund them and define their remit. As a result, the […]
I have spent a long time studying the language of communication: signalling, framing, coupling, recursion, delay. The way meaning moves, mutates, collapses, and reconstitutes itself inside complex systems. That work remains endlessly compelling. What was deeply disappointing was my brief entanglement with the university. Not simply because of what I myself was going through at […]
The Dalai Lama’s audiobook, recently recognised with a Grammy, is not framed as a political intervention. It is a work of reflection, oriented toward compassion, ethical responsibility, and the cultivation of inner steadiness. Yet the figure of the Dalai Lama does not circulate in a neutral field. His public presence remains entangled with a long […]
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